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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Just Mercy is a 2019 legal drama directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film is based on the true life case of Walter McMillian.The film follows Harvard law graduate Bryan Stevenson, who moves to Alabama to defend those who were wrongly convicted or provided insufficient legal representation. Among his clients is Walter McMillian, a black man on death row for the murder of an 18-year-old white girl. After reading through McMillian's file, it becomes exceedingly obvious to Stevenson that the case against McMillian was utterly laughable and was fueled entirely by prejudice. From there, he makes an effort to reopen the case against McMillian and provide the man with justice, but is faced with heavy resistance from the locals.The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as McMillian, and Brie Larson as Stevenson's partner Eva Ansley. Rafe Spall, Rob Morgan, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Tim Blake Nelson also appear in the film.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Alas, Poor Villain: The execution of Herbert Richardson is played for maximum sympathy despite him fully admitting his guilt, as it's clear that he doesn't really deserve it despite that.
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Amoral Attorney: Tommy Chapman, who knows damn well that McMillian's conviction was based on a mountain of lies (or at least tries to ignore the implications that it is) and yet he chooses to uphold it anyway. McMillian's first lawyer is described as having squeezed every penny he could out of the family and then just abandoned the case, without making any obvious efforts into challenging the flaws in the case which Stevenson uncovers. Multiple death row inmates talk about having public defenders who didn't care at all for their welfare or guilt or innocence and helped railroad them into prison.
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